Date:	Tuesday 22 January 1957
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5
Owner/operator:	5 FTS RAF
Registration:	WA231
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire, England -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5 WA231: Delivered 10/10/1950: RAF service career was with 203 AFS (Advance Flying School), 102 FRS, the CGS (Central Gunnery School) at RAF Leconfield, and 5 FTS RAF Oakington. When with the CGS, WA231 was one of a number of Vampire FB.5s that appeared in the 1954 feature film "Conflict of Wings"

Written off (damaged beyond repair) 22/1/1957: Engine failed and hit trees in forced landing at RAF Oakington, Cambridgeshire, being Destroyed By Fire. The pilot escaped uninjured.

1. Halley, James (1999) Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents Tunbridge Wells: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.184 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft WA100-WZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1983 p 8)
3. Category Five; A Catalogue of RAF Aircraft Losses 1954 to 2009 by Colin Cummings p.230
4. http://www.ukserials.com/losses-1957.htm
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/_DH100%20prodn%20list.txt
6. http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1950-1959_26.html
7. http://www.ukserials.com/results.php?serial=WA
8. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Conflict_of_Wings

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
02-Mar-2008 00:08	JINX	Added
08-Jun-2008 21:34	JINX	Updated
05-Mar-2013 12:41	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
18-May-2015 18:08	MiG21	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location]
17-Jul-2020 22:59	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Source, Narrative]
29-Jul-2020 17:48	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative]
11-Jul-2023 22:03	Nepa	Updated [[Narrative]]